Ron Fowler co-founded Structured in 1992 and became CEO in 1994. Under his technical and business leadership, Structured develops industry-leading solutions and services that provide the highest levels of information access and security for enterprise networks. Ron is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) with more than 20 years of experience designing and deploying local area networks (LANs), wide area networks (WANs), virtual private networks (VPNs), Internet service provider (ISP) networks and developing complex e-security tools. He is also among the first information technology leaders to be certified in token ring connectivity, firewall administration, and many other pioneering technical applications. His hands-on experience and technical expertise make him a highly sought after industry speaker on topics including secure computing and emerging technologies. While CEO of Structured, Ron also co-founded Structured Network Systems, an Internet services company. When launched in 1994, SNS was one of the earliest providers of Internet services to the Northwest. Ron sold SNS in 1997 to global telecommunications giant Verio/NTT. Before Ron started his own company, he served as district manager and senior network engineer for SJI Corp., where he managed business development in Oregon and southwestern Washington and introduced emerging routing and switching technologies to strategic SJI clients. Prior to SJI, Ron held a number of senior sales and engineering positions with prominent technology companies including Case Communications, Inc. and Rush-Drake Electronics, Inc.